The Theme of Schindler's List is the Pragmatic triumph of good over evil and of the story of the man who is not virtuous in the customary sense. The hero of the movie Oskar Schindler is complicated because he seems to be at once virtuous and immoral. It is Oskar Schindler and his evolving plight to save jews during a Nazi Germany, first for the purposes of the profits of his own factory, and of eventually for the sake of saving as many people from extermination as possible.